This is the Forward’s coverage of the Holocaust (also called the Shoah), the genocide of Europe’s Jews committed by the Nazis during World War II.
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivor Has Bar Mitzvah To Remember Slain Family — At 83
(JTA) — An 83-year-old Holocaust survivor living in northern Israel celebrated at a Safed synagogue his bar mitzah ceremony 70 years after its die moment. A few dozen friends and family, as well as Safed’s police commissioner, accompanied Hanoch Shachar to a local synagogue where many of them sang and danced with him before he…
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Fast Forward Montrealers Wear Yellow Badges To Protest Jewish School Buses
A group of Montreal citizens is using square yellow badges to protest the presence of private Jewish school buses in their neighborhood, sparking outrage in the city, the Times-Colonist reported. Ginette Chartre, a representative for the protesting Montrealers, refused to stop wearing the badges even after being told they evoked the yellow stars the Nazis…
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Fast Forward Aung San Suu Kyi Stripped Of Holocaust Museum Prize
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has stripped Daw Aung San Suu Kyi of its prestigious human rights award named for Elie Wiesel over Aun San Suu Kyi’s silence in the face of Myanmar’s “ethnic cleansing” of the Rohingya Muslim minority, the New York Times reported. Aung San Suu Kyi, the political leader of Myanmar, was…
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Fast Forward Polish President Not Welcome At White House Over Holocaust Law
(JTA) — A leading news site in Poland reported that it had obtained documents suggesting that the country’s highest officials are not welcome at the White House over a law limiting discourse on World War II. The documents, which the news site Onet did not describe in its March 5 report, mean that President Andrzej…
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Fast Forward European Leaders Honor Prince Of Monaco For Holocaust Apology
MONACO (JTA) — A prestigious think tank on tolerance comprising former European leaders honored Prince Albert II of Monaco for his apology for his country’s treatment of Jews during the Holocaust, among other actions. The European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation on Tuesday bestowed its European Medal of Tolerance to the head of state of…
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Fast Forward Will Poland’s Controversial New Law Lead To A Boycott Of Holocaust Tourism?
(JTA) — Three years ago, Shaul de Malach had no problem joining fellow educators from his country on a trip to former Nazi death camps in Poland. Like tens of thousands of Israelis and Jews in the Diaspora who go on commemorative missions each year, de Malach “didn’t exactly relish the thought of visiting Auschwitz,”…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Tour Guide’s Home Vandalized With Jewish Star, ‘Poland For The Poles’
The home of a concentration camp tour guide was vandalized in Krakow on Friday with a Star of David and a Polish nationalist message, as public tensions increase over a new law banning certain language about the Holocaust. The Italian-born guide, Diego Audero Bottero, told Polsat Media that he found the star and the messages…
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Fast Forward Polish Group Sues Newspaper In First Test Of Controversial New Holocaust Law
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — A right-wing Polish group sued a newspaper in Argentina under the country’s new Holocaust law for using a photo of Polish partisans to illustrate an article about the Jedwabne pogrom of 1941. The lawsuit was filed on Friday by the Polish League Against Defamation, or the Reduta Dobrego Imienia (RDI), hours…
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